Georges Bataille explains that...

…Georges Bataille explains that the language of Sade is paradoxical because it it essentially that of victim. Only the victim can describe torture; the torturer necessarily uses the hypocritical language of established order and power. As a general rule the torturer does not use the language of the violence exerted by him in the name of an established authority; he uses the language of authority….

Thus Sade’s attitude is diametrically opposed to that of the torturer. When Sade writes he refuses to cheat, but he attributes his own attitude to people who in real life could only have been silent and uses them to make self-contradictory statements to other people.

Ought we to conclude that the language of Masoch is equally paradoxical in this instance because the victim speaks the language of the torturer he is to himself, with all the hypocrisy of the torturer?…

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